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The usable signal using a relaxed 10 mV/m (the ITU says you need 15 mV/m in metro areas) covers just 40% of the market daytime and less than 30% at night.
No station has "cero" overhead. Utilities, music licenses (even for talk stations), offices, real estate for the transmitter, property taxes, business licenses, FCC fees, legal, accounting, office staff, furniture, computers, engineering, Internet access, equipment maintenance, business and programming software fees, insurance, etc., etc., mount up in an expensive metro area.
Univision is now part of Televisa. Jorge Ramos was fired by Televisa from XEW/XEQ and Televisa San Angel for not following company policy many years ago. Comparing the Perenchio and, later, Saban eras of Univision with today's Televisa ownership just doesn't work.
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Was Kevin Adell in the photo? If so, that may explain WFDF's sudden turn a couple months ago.
Nope. The interview was done by the lead Televisa reporter/anchor in Mexico City; he is still very much part of Televisa. It's important to note that Televisa alone, without Univision, is the much larger entity, with international standings on a variety of metrics being much larger than CBS, ABC or NBC.
The Univision policy is so changed that they did not even allow the Democratic party to buy ads in the commercial breaks during the interview. That was a corporate decision of the highest sort.
The Televisa policy is to be more centrist and friendly to all parties... despite many decades of parcialization towards the PRI. Univision, going back to the Perenchio and Saban eras, was closer to the farthest left of the Dekmocratic party than being "centrist".
It's pretty much the norm that first generation Hispanics have Spanish as their principal language and, overwhelmingly, the one they think in. The second generation speaks Spanish with their parents, but English with everyone else. First generation Hispanics have a relatively low percentage of U.S. citizenship and, thus, fewer of them vote.
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You can judge for yourself. I made this recording of half an hour of KYST in April 1986. Receiving location was near Westheimer and Woodhead in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston. Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/u5zl0oegutaw92j/KYST.April1986.mp3/file
Noise levels in metro areas have increased dramatically in the last 35 years since then. A 2.5 mV/m signal was usable back then on AM. Today, the ITU says 15 mV/m is required to overcome noise. In general, the usable urban area coverage of AM stations has been reduced by about 2/3 in those years.
Not the same person:
Univision News Anchor Leon Krauze Exits Network Days After Controversial Trump Interview
The journalist had been with Univision Noticias for years, working out of its Los Angeles station, and later its national newsroom.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Note that the Trump interview was in English and on TV. The anchor who resigned is also on TV, not radio.
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Not even in the same country. The interview was done by a Televisa México anchor, while the guy who quit is a Univision USA former employee.
And since TelevisaUnivision in the US no longer owns any AM stations, there is nowhere such an interview would have been broadcast.
new pd or better yet the first pd for Latino Media Network
Considering that their own website has no releases since June of this year, and almost all the stations they own are worthless, this is not a significant news item.
Worthless is harsh. yet you applied for the position?
You can't claim your statement was up for interpretation when you stated it as a fact. You called it a "meeting".
KYST went CHR on June 14, 1982 and was programmed by Clay Gish.
KKBQ (79Q) made the switch just a couple of weeks later.
79Q debuted with a 2.1 and then jumped to a 5.3 before 93Q joined in and sounded the death knell for CHR on AM in Houston.
KYST went 0.3 to 0.5 and didn't even show in the Winter '83 book. It only lasted 11 months as a CHR, and flipped to the all-Beatles format on May 1, 1983 before going Spanish Contemporary that fall.
Here's the definition of the word "meeting"
That's what this was. It was private, not one of his public rallies.
I'm not here to defend or argue about someone else's Facebook post. He attended a meeting, or gathering, or assembly, or whatever word you wish to use.
Matt Velasquez on LinkedIn: I am thankful for the chance to attend a private event last night withâ¦
I am thankful for the chance to attend a private event last night with President Trump here in Houston. This opportunity ties into an upcoming business move…
IIRC, I think David did mention that he applied mostly in jest. It wasn't a completely serious inquiry.
I applied for the COO or CEO position, just to see if they would respond. They never did, proving my point.
And it was for the CEO position, for which I have decades of group ownership and management successful experience. As I said before, I knew they would not consider a radio pro as they are totally politically motivated.
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You can try to walk back your text with technicalities. But you said what you said. These mental gymnastics are truly unnecessary if all you did was clarify that your statement was meant as an opinion and not a fact.
It was about as public as a Costco. If you could have afforded it, you could have attended it.
And that "meeting" in itself convinced him that he needed to change KYST-AM???
The more probable of guesses (and not an assumption presented as a fact) is that after the patriarch's passing, Matt decided to take the station in a different direction.
Did you read the link? He makes the connection directly. So yes. Attending that event "ties into an upcoming business move," which we now know was this format change. Read what HE said.
The connection made to an "upcoming" business move does not = he was convinced at that "meeting".
It really sounds more like the move has been planned before the event and he merely attended to make business connections. But of course, this is purely speculation not presented as facts 🙄.
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